Sunday Telegraph: Varney turns gamekeeper: “made his reputation at Shell”
(Filed: 18/07/2004)
David Varney, who will run the Government’s new Revenue and Customs agency, tells Robert Watts how he plans to axe 12,500 taxmen
‘It’s not the money, it’s the challenge.” How often have you heard that from a business grandee paid cash by the truckload? But it’s slightly harder to dispute this claim when made by David Varney, the outgoing chairman of MMO2, the mobile phone operator, who made his reputation at Shell and then at British Gas.
In a little over six weeks, Varney will take a £200,000 pay cut, leave the private sector and begin life as one of Britain’s most pressurised civil servants.
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
